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São Paulo – Brazilian authorities should swiftly and credibly investigate an attack on Gabriel Barbosa da Silva, a part-time freelance reporter, cartoonist, and photographer for the São Paulo publication VerboOnline, and bring his attackers to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said during the week. Da Silva, who is known by his nickname Binho, was driving home around 2 a.m. …

New York – An appeals court in Niger’s capital, Niamey, on Monday postponed a hearing for Baba Alpha until March 12, the broadcast journalist’s lawyer, Amadou Boubacar Mossi, told CPJ. Alpha, a reporter for the privately owned radio and television news agency Bonferey, is serving a two-year sentence for using false documents, in what his lawyer and local journalists said …

New York – Saudi Arabian authorities must immediately release Saleh al-Shehi from detention and stop arresting journalists who criticize the country’s government, the Committee to Protect Journalists said at the weekend. Saudi security forces arrested al-Shehi, a columnist for the Saudi Arabian daily al-Watan, on January 3, according to Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and news reports, which all cited …

By Alltimepost.com New York – At least 42 journalists were killed in the course of their work in 2017, the Committee to Protect Journalists found in its annual analysis, released today. While the overall number eased for a second consecutive year from record highs earlier this decade, at least six journalists were murdered in Mexico, the most killings there in …

New York — For the second year in a row, the number of journalists imprisoned for their work hit a historical high, as the U.S. and other Western powers failed to pressure the world’s worst jailers–Turkey, China, and Egypt–into improving the bleak climate for press freedom, the Committee to Protect Journalists found. As of December 1, 2017, CPJ found 262 …

By Alltimepost.com To sustain its Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the United Nations must work to put pressure on the Nigerian authorities to use all of the looted funds from Nigeria to develop critical infrastructure that enhances the chances of Nigerians to succeed at home. Nigeria must also make a list of beneficial ownership of all companies and property owned by …

By Alltimepost.com Nigeria’s frontline human and environmental rights group, the Africa Network For Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has again called for intensified action on global asset recovery and fight against graft. ANEEJ Executive Director, Rev. David Ugolor in a speech to mark the World Anti-corruption Day yesterday in Benin City, Nigeria, delivered on his behalf by Program Manager, Comrade …

Men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, intimidate, harass and brutalize innocent citizens without cause. Therefore, the IG may want to scrap or modify it in the interest of Nigerians and of their rights. In the interest of society, the IG and indeed the police must understand that its primary responsibility is to protect human lives and uphold their dignity, …

By Dr. West Ehiogie-Idahosa On December 3rd, 2014. Prince Pere Ogei, my nephew, went to GTB, Akpakpava Street, Benin City to pick up some funds for my Senatorial primary election campaign. A few minutes after 1pm on that day, I spoke to him and he told me he was very close to my house. About 10 minutes after we spoke, …

The Committee to Protect Journalists today joined a coalition of international sport organizations, civil society, and governments that are establishing an independent Centre for Sport and Human Rights. In a statement published today, the Mega-Sporting Events Platform for Human Rights, which CPJ is part of, outlined its commitment to establishing the center in 2018. The move comes more than a …